But what if a learner came across some sentence like (?) 'Es wird schon hinhauen' and knew enough to look under the infinitive, but not enough to actually know what it means? The problem with example sentences is that no one is going to search for them unless they really never appear in any other form.

It seems reasonable to have some definition(s) of this sense listed under the infinitive form, though this might not be the best one.

Okay, but isn't that just the general problem of bidirectionality? Not every translation works in every context. If users see that there are several choices, they need to click on them in turn to find out which ones make sense, not just pick one at random.

And most dictionaries don't have explanations about the third person for things like, say, regnen, do they? Maybe they assume that's clear enough from context.

What might really help is to group all the entries for the same context together, with the infinitive form and the example sentence together, as in a print dictionary. But that would require redoing the whole database ...

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